Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[yarrow@sfo.com]

There was an experimental GM potato that sickened (or killed) test 
animals. Don't know if a new one has made it to market.


At 11:08 AM -0700 1/28/08, TradingPostPaul wrote:
> Last I heard the GMO companies hadn't bothered with vegetable crops. The
> big money is in huge field crops, grains, soy, corn, cotton, and so forth.
> However ... we can't be completely sure we're not getting any GMOs when we
> eat anything with high fructose corn extract or certain grains or corn.
> Most soy is GMO or contaminated with GMO.
>
> As far as growing ALL your own food -- realistically, we don't even want to
> try to eat *only* what we can grow ourselves at home, even with a lot of
> food preserving for eating out of season. Networking locally is ideal where
> some can specialize in one thing, some another. Some have animals, some
> orchards, some vegetables, and so on. Tho not everything we need or want
> can be produced locally. Some spices and condiments, tea and coffee and
> others items aren't ever going to be produced in our own area. No doubt
> their prices are headed up. But they're used in very small quantities and
> lose little in storage and shipping. Tomatoes are a different story, which
> is why we concentrate on marketing and trading all we can here.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
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> On 1/28/2008 at 9:40 AM yarrow@sfo.com wrote:
>
> > AFAIK, certified organically grown food is not allowed to have any
> > GMOs. I assume GMOs have crept into just about everything else. (Or
> > move to Europe and read the fine print on labels -- they're required
> > to divulge GMO content.)
> >
> >
> > At 9:24 AM -0600 1/28/08, Pumpkin Lady wrote:
> > .... I blame food for a lot of my issues, but the only way to be
> > > absolutely sure that food is the issue is to make sure I consume only
> > > non-GMO food, and pretty much the only way to do that is to grow your
> > > own and never eat out.
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